Is gold worthless?

Headberg2174

Anyone else feel that money is pretty useless in this game?

Thymos

Well... depends on if you ever want to repair anything in the game.

Headberg2174

Well besides that.

Mighty_oakk

Once you get passed the initial i gotta buy a horse, bags, bank space ... pretty much

Tons of stuff not being boe doesnt help. You can buy something, use it, resell it. And even if its bound you can give it to your crafter, dismantle, sell temper.

BaconMagic

For me, I hate crafting so good is a necessity. In the 1-50 experience, gold is fairly useless however.

Bromburak

Headberg2174 wrote: »

Anyone else feel that money is pretty useless in this game?

No, I like cash.

tallenn

Anyone who feels their gold is worthless, please feel free to mail as much as you like to @tallenn I will give it a good home

Igglez

Not really, if I wanted to craft the best gear possible, id need gold upgrade mats and gold enchant mats, which unless I get massively fortunate with drops in the next 9 levels until I reach VR14, these mats would only come at a cost of gold. Also if I want Deadra/ancient elf motifs ect.

After I have all the motifs and gear I need, perhaps it is worthless. But I can't imagine being in that position for some time.

Cuyler

Save your gold!

One thousand (1000) TV stones = 1 Mil gold come next patch

Well I'm just speculating

Muletide

Of course not, there are plenty of over inflated motifs to buy....

PBpsy

Yes . It is completely worthless. You should send it all to me.

The Uninvited

Muletide wrote: »

Of course not, there are plenty of over inflated motifs to buy....

Prices used to be much higher in the beginning. Or are you talking about prices on console?

Banky71

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leafs a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

patrykplawskib16_ESO

Gold is very important, it gives the opportunities to keep buying your pots buy and sell to make more and save towards new dlc patches so you can buy the new sets and materials you desire. A good example is when imperial launches, the materials need to craft vr16 wont be cheap at all nor easy to acquire so you better have money saved up.

Nestor

Console prices are insane right now. I don't know where people are getting the money. If Blue Motifs sold for 2000 to 3000 gold on the PC, I would only know one racial style per character.

Once you get your character up to around 80 to 110 bag spaces, and your horse up around 40 and your bank up near 170 to 200, storage stops being an issue, especially if you don't craft. If you craft, then even these are not enough bag spaces, then your looking at 110/60/240 to be comfortable with that. By comfortable you can put most of your crafting mats in the bank and still have room to dump a character's inventory so you can go clean out a dungeon.

Kaitona

No

Keiro

Personally gold is everything to me at the moment, well that and armour traits. But I'm levelling my crafting too, materials and motifs I've found pretty easy to come across and made a tidy amount in guild stores on excess. My next bank upgrade is 55k though and I've just hit 40k again..

Beesting

When you want to do stuff like trials and vdsa and small scale pvp you will need about 20 to 30 thousand gold per evening just for the triple stat potions

So i would save the gold for that. Armor and stuff is cheap compared to potions

HeroOfNone

Currently gold helps you purchase

- base potions
- repair kits
- lock picks
- training train armor (mage guild)
- motif stones
- repairs
- bounties
- soul gems
- basic runes
- basic food/drink
- certain siege weapons
- random gear merchants
- bank space
- bag space, horse upgrades
- champion point reset
- attribute reset
- skill point reset
- bid on an auction house rights.


That's about it for now. I put out a post on how merchants could be improved with instanced randomed loot but few folks supported it.

The_Sadist

Nope, gold does have value if you're not hoarding it. Once you buy all your bank upgrades and each character's bag upgrades there are still quite a few uses for it e.g. to buy Tempers to upgrade your gear or to buy legendary glyphs to put on said gear. Likewise, gear itself can cost anything between 5k and 100k+ and motifs are not cheap. Potions are a constant gold sink and if you die a lot soul gems can become quite expensive. Lastly, researching nirn items from scratch can become quite expensive.

Attorneyatlawl

Headberg2174 wrote: »

Anyone else feel that money is pretty useless in this game?

Nope. And having had (and currently possessing) more gold and valuables than most people who have ever played the game... I've still yet to think, "Man, I can't find anything good to use this towards soon." For the first 4 months or so of the PC launch in 2014 I can confidently say I was in the top 10 if not better, of wealthiest players in the entire US megaserver. I'm lower than that now, but... I'd be very shocked to learn that even after a 6 month or so break from health problems over the winter, I'm not still (after making my way back up) in the top 50. This isn't to boast or brag, but to provide an honest perspective and back up where I'm coming from in saying "Nope" .


Theorycrafting isn't cheap, as my coinpurse can attest firsthand .

Fornacis

Anytime you have an excess of useless gold laying around just pass it on to me and I'll make it usefull again.

OzJohnD

ZO obviously haven't put in enough gold sinks

Tholian1

Headberg2174 wrote: »

Anyone else feel that money is pretty useless in this game?

I wish I had that problem. It is taking forever for me to scrounge up enough to buy bank space.

Acrolas

I put back half of my gold into a low-interest saving account for retirement, and the other half I put back in mead.

delushin

I mean we have been trying to score a trading stand since the PS4 release and I have no freaking clue what these things must sell for because 100k still wont get you a stand in Wayrest.

nine9six

As someone who is still going through all of the expenditures in the game...it's not useless for me.

I can see how it could become useless at some point, however.

badmojo

Gold can buy almost everything in the game.

nimander99

I give O.P an L O L, classic bra... classic

RainbowDashMage

worthless??? Nope go look on ebay....

Violynne

I think I have 155,000 gold in the bank right now, so my answer would be "Yes, if the goal is to see how much the bank can store before the game breaks".

Heh.